Set MS Windows 11 permanently to stop asking for sign-in password or pin

Anonymous
2023-10-20T13:34:38+00:00

Please Microsoft, stop being such an annoying nanny.

My personal desktop PC at home is not accessible to anyone except me. When I turn it on I don't want to be constantly prompted to sign in to my Microsoft account (which itself is endlessly annoying as you can't just sign in). MS insists on the endless complicated sign ins. Even after setting my account not to require a password or pin to auto-start, MS keeps re-setting that. I'm not even allowed to set an easy repeated pin entry or password. Google is also doing that ****. I can't tell you how many times a day I have to respond to emails or text messages with verification codes and 2FAs. They want scan my face or use my fingerprint to supposedly make it easier -- at what additional cost?

Please don't lecture me on security. I have a hearty password manager, encrypted router authentication settings, and countless other protections. This is not a publicly accessible laptop or phone.

This nonsense is incredible. It affects everything and makes you waste an enormous amount of time.

While I'm at it, they're criminal highwaymen. I've spent months trying to speak to a live support agent about a deranged licensing system. I had a valid product key for over a decade. My PC could not run Windows 11 (more nanny nonsense). So, I bought some hardware and upgraded that PC.

I made the harrowing mistake of updating windows during my hardware process. In that update, Windows wiped out my product key from the registry and took me on this months long rabbit hole of their idiotic explanations in a circuitous meandering labyrinthine maze that always ends up without solution and sends you back to the same old starting place.

They can easily find that my Windows installation was used without any licensing question for a decade. I could even provide them over two years of regular update installations, but they want me to go through hundreds of storage boxes to find my original disk and key. I've been there before with XP and 7. Even when I find the box with the key on it, their computerized activation system refuses to let me use it. Simply ****?

They've so completely complicated their licensing structure and definitions into a shell game, with that garbage excuses gatekeeping extortion scam. They're running a criminal ransom operation. When you're upgrading hardware you will finally give up and buy a new digital key -- crooks. Then, after I was able to finally activate Windows 10, I chose to upgrade to Windows 11. Now the same **** is happening all over again. They want me to spend another $120 to buy another key. What incredible A**H***S!

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Accounts, profiles, and login

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-01T08:14:57+00:00

    I agree about the " forced security " . My canine is the only one who can see my laptop … sign in options are for the user , not for Microsoft . I would be all too happy to sign something relieving Microsoft of any security liabilities in exchange for my preference to remove Hello PIN . I feel that the user owns the device so they own the access rules .

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-04T11:31:43+00:00

    If you're still having issues, what you can do to access the checkbox is go to settings, and in the accounts section go to sign in options. There, you should find an option under additional settings that reads "For improved security, only allow Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts on this device". If you switch that off, you should be able to access the checkbox when you open the "netplwiz" manager.

    If you need any further help, just ask.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-04T22:11:07+00:00

    Go to Settings. In the top left box type Sign In Options, then when it opens scroll down to Sign in Options, then Additional Settings and where is says "if you've been away, when should Windows require you to sign in again", change to Never.

    I agree about the " forced security " . My canine is the only one who can see my laptop … sign in options are for the user , not for Microsoft . I would be all too happy to sign something relieving Microsoft of any security liabilities in exchange for my preference to remove Hello PIN . I feel that the user owns the device so they own the access rules .

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-06T22:35:29+00:00

    Hi - I am having the same problem. I managed to stop Hello function, toggled off 'improved security.....' , but still I have to use Microsoft password to access laptop, where previously (yesterday) I only needed to type in my laptop password.

    What else can I do?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-09T04:22:09+00:00

    Reply to Jacob … Windows Hello

    " For improved security , only allow … … " , I turned it off and

    I'm not signing in anymore .

    Thanks so much !

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